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The Indian Advocate. 169that tribe lived about the three forks of the Missouri, nearwhere are now Gallatin and Virginia City, Montana. Thisinformation, obtained from old men without the use of leading questions, and with the aid of good maps, tallies exactlywith the earliest tradition of the Kiowa tribe. They say further that the Kiowa moved down from the mountains andeastward along the Yellowstone in company with the Crows,and then turned southeastward to about the present neighborhood of Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where they partedwith the Crows and continued southward. "Plenty-poles,"then nearly ninety years of age, first met the Kiowas when hewas a small boy on the head of the North Platte, west of thepresent town of Cheyenne, Wyoming.The friendship between the Kiowa and the Crows wasclose and intimate, in spite of occasional quarrels, and continued after the Kiowa had entirely removed from the northand established themselves on the Arkansas. They madecommon cause against the invading Dakota and Cheyennefrom the east, by whom they were finally dispossessed. Asalready stated, the Kiowa obtained their present tai-me orsun-dance medicine from the Crows, and the sacred arrowlance of Tanguadal's family came originally from the samesource. For a long time after removing from the north it wasa frequent occurrence for Kiowa fathers to make visits to theCrows and leave with that tribe their young children for twoor three years in order that they might learn the Crow language and thus help to preserve the old friendship. Thereare still several old people among the Kiowa who have a considerable Crow vocabulary acquired in this way. Conversely,the northern Arapaho state that the Crows refer to the Kiowaas their relatives, and that some of them speak a little of thelanguage acquired during similar visits to the south.Incorporated with the Kiowa, and forming a componentpart of their tribal circle, is a small tribe of Athapascanstock, commonly known as Apache or Kiowa Apache, but